{"id":25374,"date":"2025-05-26T20:53:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otte1.org\/?p=25374"},"modified":"2025-05-26T20:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:53:58","slug":"from-japan-to-the-pamirs-oblomow-the-gulag-and-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/news\/from-japan-to-the-pamirs-oblomow-the-gulag-and-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"From Japan to the Pamirs, Oblomow, the Gulag and Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Saturday, 31 May 2025 at 12:30 there will be a presentation after the market.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the past 18 years, scholarship holder Ikuru Kuwajima has travelled extensively from Asia to Europe, particularly to areas that were part of the Soviet Union. In his artist talk, Ikuru Kuwajima will present some of his earlier artistic works: They can be historical and geographical, as in his \u2018Trail\u2019 series about the Afghan-Tajik border, or they can be more introspective, as in \u2018I, Oblomov\u2019, which refers to a literary masterpiece. Or it can be a mixture of scientific and historical research that connects two remote places, as in \u2018Repatriation\u2019, which shows the path of driftwood travelling from the Gulag prison camps in Siberia to Iceland.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/02ikuru-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/02ikuru-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/02ikuru-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/02ikuru-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/02ikuru-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/02ikuru.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, on 14 June, Ikuru will present his recent work on the Baltic Sea coast with reference to K\u00f6nigsberg-born architect Bruno Taut, and his presentation this week will introduce audiences to his other reflective works that deal with cross-cultural heritage, identities, borders and memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, 31 May 2025 at 12:30 there will be a presentation after the market. Over the past 18 years, scholarship holder Ikuru Kuwajima has travelled extensively from Asia to Europe, particularly to areas that were part of the Soviet Union. In his artist talk, Ikuru Kuwajima will present some of his earlier artistic works:","protected":false},"author":1632,"featured_media":25378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post post-type-post post-view- post-scope-","status-publish","post-format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","clear"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25382,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374\/revisions\/25382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}